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Manual:Generating 2D drawings
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This tutorial uses the latest features of Introduction

FreeCAD 0.19 development version. Discovering FreeCAD

When your model cannot be printed or milled directly by What is FreeCAD?

a machine, for example it is too big (a building) or it Installing
requires manual assembly after the pieces are ready, you
will usually need to explain to another person how to do Installing on Windows
it. In technical fields (engineering, architecture, etc), this Installing on Linux
is usually done with drawings. The drawings are handed Installing on Mac OS
over to the person responsible for assembling the final Uninstalling
product and will explain how to do it.
Setting basic preferences
Typical examples are Ikea instructions, architectural Installing additional content
drawings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural_d The FreeCAD interface
rawing), and blueprints (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B
lueprint). These drawings usually contain not only the Workbenches
drawing itself, but also many annotations, such as text, The interface
dimensions, numbers, and symbols that will help other
people to understand what needs to be done and how. Customizing the interface
Navigating in the 3D view
In FreeCAD, the workbench responsible for making such
drawings is the TechDraw Workbench. A word about the 3D space
The FreeCAD 3D view
The TechDraw Workbench allows you to create sheets, Selecting objects
which can be blank or use a pre-made template to already
have a series of items on the sheet, such as borders and a The FreeCAD document
title. On these sheets, you can then place views of the 3D Parametric objects
objects you modeled previously, and configure how these Import and export to other filetypes
views will appear on the sheet. You can also place all
kinds of annotations on the sheet, such as dimensions, Working with FreeCAD
texts, and other symbols commonly used in technical All workbenches at a glance
drawings.
Traditional modeling, the CSG way
Drawing sheets, once complete, can be printed or Traditional 2D drafting
exported as SVG (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalable Modeling for product design
_Vector_Graphics), PDF or DXF (https://en.wikipedia.or Preparing models for 3D printing
g/wiki/AutoCAD_DXF) files.
Exporting to slicers
In the following exercise, we will see how to create a Converting objects to meshes
simple drawing of a chair model found in the FreeCAD
library (https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-library) Using Slic3r
(Furniture → Chairs → IkeaLikeChair). The FreeCAD Using the Cura addon
library can easily be added to your FreeCAD installation Generating G-code
(refer to the installing chapter of this manual), or you can
simply download the model from the library webpage, or Generating 2D drawings
via the direct link provided at the bottom of this chapter. BIM modeling
Using spreadsheets
Reading properties
Writing properties
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Creating FEM analyses

Creating renderings
Python scripting
A gentle introduction
Writing Python code
Manipulating FreeCAD objects
Vectors and Placements
Creating and manipulating geometry
Creating parametric objects
Creating interface tools
The community

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455.21

950.00
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20x58mm plywood

30mm plywood sheet

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Created by: Title:

Joshua Call My chair

Supplementary information: Size: Sheet: Scale:

A4 1/1 1:10
Part number:

Entirely designed with FreeCAD! 01

Drawing number:

01
Date: Revision:

19/01/2020 REV A

Load the IkeaLikeChair file from the library. You can choose between the .FCStd version, which will
load the full modeling history, or the .step version, which will create only one object, without the
history. Since we won't need to model any further now, it is best to choose the .step version, as it
will be easier to manipulate.

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Switch to the TechDraw Workbench

Press the New Pick button.
Select the A4_Portrait_ISO7200TD template. A new tab will open in your FreeCAD window,
showing the new page.
In the tree view (or in the model tab), select the chair model. It will most likely be named something
like "Open CASCADE STEP translator."
Press the New View button.
A View object will be created on our page. Select the view object in the tree view, and then give the
view the following properties in the data tab of the combo view:
Under the Base category:
X: 70 mm
Y: 120 mm
Rotation: 0
Scale: 0.1
Under the Projection category (hit the drop down arrow to modify the x, y, and z components of
these properties individually):
Direction: [0 0 1]
XDirection: [0 -1 0] (Change the y field first, then the x field)
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We now have a nice top view of our chair. Hit the Toggle button to turn the View frames, labels,
and vertices off.

Let's repeat the operation twice, to create two more views. We will set their X and Y values, which
indicate the position of the view on the page, in order to show them apart from the top view, and
their direction, to create different view orientations. Give each new view the following properties:
View001 (front view): X: 70, Y: 220, Scale: 0.1, Rotation: 0, Direction: (-1,0,0), XDirection:
(0,-1,0)
View002 (side view): X: 150, Y: 220, Scale: 0.1, Rotation: 0, Direction: (0,-1,0), XDirection:
(1,0,0)
After that, we obtain the following page:

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Note that there may be easier ways to get the views that you want. You can simply rotate the 3D
view of your model, and once you have the view you want, select the model in the tree view and hit
New View. This will automatically insert a view with the desired rotation and direction properties.
You can also use the Projection Group tool.
We can tweak the aspect of our views if we want, for example we can change their Line Width
property (under the View tab in the Combo View) to 0.5.
We will now place dimensions and indications on our drawing. There are two ways to add dimensions
to a model: one is placing the dimensions inside the 3D model, using the Dimension tool of the Draft
Workbench, and then placing a view of these dimensions on our sheet with the New Draft tool. The
other is to do things directly on the TechDraw sheet. We'll use the latter method.

Hit the Toggle button to turn the vertices on.

Use Ctrl + Left Mouse Click to select the two vertices you want to measure the distance between.
Hit the Dimension Length button.

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Repeat the operation, until all the dimensions you wish to indicate are placed. Use the Vertical
Dimension and Horizontal Dimension tools as necessary.
Take a minute to look at the properties of the Dimension object in the Combo View.
Please note that if you are dimensioning an axonometric (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axonometric
_projection) view (e.g., isometric view) instead of a multiview (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivie
w_projection) view (e.g., front view) like we have done here, you will need to use the Dimension
Link tool to get an accurate dimension.

We will now place the two callouts shown in the image above, using the Balloon tool.

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1. Looking at the Page in the 3D view window, select the View to which the Balloon will be attached, as shown in the image above.
2. Press the Balloon button.
3. The cursor is now displayed as a balloon icon. Click on the page to place the balloon origin at the desired position.
4. The balloon bubble may be dragged to the desired position.
5. Change the balloon properties by double clicking the balloon label or the balloon object in the tree view. This will open the Balloon Task dialog. Set
the Value field to the desired text and change the Symbol drop-down menu selection to None
6. Press OK
7. Repeat the operation for the second callout.

We will now fill in the sheet title block.

Make sure that the View frames, labels, and vertices are visible. If not, hit the Toggle button.
Edit the text in each section of the sheet title block by clicking on the small green square on the
left side of the text.
Our page can now be exported to SVG for further work in graphical applications like Inkscape (http://
www.inkscape.org) or to DXF. Select the page in the tree view and then select menu File → Export.
The DXF format is importable in almost all existing 2D CAD applications. TechDraw pages can also be
directly printed or exported to PDF.

Downloads

The chair model: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-

library/blob/master/Furniture/Chairs/IkeaLikeChair.step
The file created during this exercise: https://github.com/JoshuaCall/FreeCAD-
manual/blob/master/files/drawing.FCStd
The SVG sheet produced from that file: https://github.com/JoshuaCall/FreeCAD-
manual/blob/master/files/drawing.svg
Read more

The TechDraw workbench

Create custom templates
Another TechDraw tutorial
The FreeCAD library (https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-library)
Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org)
Watch turorials
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Sliptonic's TechDraw playlist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LbOmSGW9F0&list=PLEuOia-Q

xyFKQnmM1U9yVo7eNrK_Mcln8)
Symbols and Views (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cggBR1Ghq7k)
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